Monday, 22 January 2018

Music Video Analysis

L/O: To apply media terminology when analysing music videos.

Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi
The narrative style of the video would include most of the characters skating or being on bmxi. Once they are in the street they are playing the music in the video.


Most of the camerawork in the video is handheld, even in scenes with shot types from lower or higher angles.


Most of the video is a performance based narrative that has Avril Lavigne singing throughout, the narrative is linear and follows the story of Avril performing songs in the street.


The sounds in the video are mostly diegetic, the song is being performed by Avril in the video, suggesting that it is diegetic, the helicopter at the end is also diegetic.


Avril and her people are dressed like the edgy youth of the time. The objects in the scenes are styled towards what you would see in a punk rock music video.


There is lots of fast-paced editing that cuts from scene to scene and from person to person within seconds.

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
The narrative style is linear and has characters that perform and characters that show the story.

The camerawork is much more professional and uses more smooth angles of the camera and better movement.

The sounds in the video are mostly diegetic at the end of it, but throughout there is mostly just the music.

The clothing and mise en scene is standard american high school items that you would expect from the styles of the characters.


The editing is much more smooth and timed specifically for the song to work with the video.

The characters throughout are based off of high school stereotypes that fit the video correctly and help to tell the story.

Monday, 8 January 2018

Mock Feedback

L/O: To review mock exam questions and make improvements.

Question 1:
Gender, Age, Class, Interest in genre of music

Question 2:
Media Language, Correct Terminology, Representation, Specific Examples, Identify Media Language, Link to Target Audience


  • The Star Picture will link directly to the audience that grew up around the artist
  • The colour blue (background colour) will link to the male gender as a stereotype
  • Dave Grohl's top is black which suggests the darker theme of music that the audience like
  • The font of the masthead is bold and links to the masculinity of the audience
Question 3:
Media Language, Correct Terminology, Identify Genre Conventions, Link to Target Audience, Representation

  • The stance of David Bowie is very masculine and strong
  • The colour scheme is not the typical colours of a rock magazine, it is mainly blue and grey.
  • The Star Picture is David Bowie and is very recognisable by the target audience
  • David Bowie is not known to be masculine and goes against the stereotype of being in this magazine.

Thursday, 4 January 2018

Music Videos

Narrative based video is where the lyrics are telling the story (narrating) of the video.
Performance based video is where it is the video showing the band playing the music.
Concept based video is where there is an abstract video that shows uniqueness.

Sk8ter Boi:
Artist: Avril Lavigne
Genre: Pop
Date Released: 2002
Type of music video: Narrative and performance based.
The story of this song is Avril's viewpoint of her rocker boyfriend, who knew a girl who was a snob and he rejected her because he was a skateboarder.
What happens in the video: Avril Lavigne and her crew skates and rides around illegal places, they spray paint some walls and then get in a car and drive into town, they start playing music and basically cause a riot, the police show up and they vandalise a car, then the video abruptly ends.
Who features in the video: Avril Lavigne, Avril Lavigne's Band

Represented as: Edgy skaters
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/avrillavigne/sk8erboi.html

Teenage Dirtbag:
Artist: Wheatus
Genre: Pop Rock
Date Released: 2000
Type of music video: Narrative and performance based
The story of this song is a teenager who falls asleep and dreams of turning cool and falling in love with a popular girl, he wakes up and seems startled.
Who features in this video: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari

Represented as: Nerds
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/wheatus/teenagedirtbag.html